Victorian Heritage Register Data Sheets for Places on the Victorian Heritage Register
SEPTEMBER 2013
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Heritage Overlay Address Page Number
Dhurringile 1 HO12 Dhurringile Homestead, 870 Murchison-Tatura Road, Dhurringile 1 HO55 Number One Internment Camp, 1320 Stewart Road, Dhurringile 4
Kialla 6 HO22 Calder Woodburn Memorial Avenue, Goulburn Valley Highway, Kialla, 6 Kialla West and Arcadia
Murchison 8 HO58 Day’s Flour Mill Complex, 75 Day Road, Murchison 8 HO60 Gregory’s Bridge Hotel, 10 High Road, Murchison 10
Shepparton 12 HO150 Bangerang Cultural Centre, Parkside Gardens, 45 Parkside Drive, 12 Shepparton
Victorian Heritage Database place details - 2/9/2013 DHURRINGILE
Location: 870 MURCHISON-TATURA ROAD MURCHISON, Greater Shepparton City
Victorian Heritage Register (VHR) Number: H1554 Listing Authority: VHR Extent of Registration: Amendment of Register of Government Buildings Rodney Shire H.M. Prison, Dhurringile, Murchison-Tatura Road, Murchison. [Victoria Government Gazette No. G39 12 October 1988 p.3093] Transferred to the Victorian Heritage Register 23 May 1998 (2 years after the proclamation of the Heritage Act 1995 pursuant to the transitional provisions of the Act)
Statement of Significance:
Dhurringile, consisting of a two-storeyed brick residenceand gatehouse, brick stables and timber shearing shed, was constructed by James Winter in 1876-77. John [Jock] Winter, the son of a blacksmith, arrived in Australia with his family from Scotland in 1841 and settled near Ballarat. The discovery of gold on their property transformed the life of the family and provided the basis for sizeable investment in large pastoral areas throughout northern Victoria. Three of the four Winter sons who had taken up large areas of land in the Goulburn Valley each constructed a substantial home on their land, the grandest of them being Noorilim [VHR H0297], built by William Winter (later Winter-Irving) in 1878-79 and Dhurringhile. After the great Goulburn flood of 1870 had washed away his original wooden homestead, James Winter
1 selected a site away from the river for the construction of a huge new towered brick mansion which he named Dhurringile. The mansion was designed by Lloyd Tayler and Wyatt, one of Melbourne's most prominent architectural firms. The style of Dhurringile suggests that it was probably designed by Frederick Wyatt as Lloyd Tayler, the more well known of the two, was absent from his practice from January 1875 to May 1877 on an extended visit to England. The homestead also had extensive stabling, a shearing shed, and other outbuildings, and a manager's residence and stabling some distance from the house which may predate the mansion as James Winter had taken up residence there by 1875.The shearing shed was reputed to be one of the largest in Victoria. Although often absent from his country property, James Winter was active in local community affairs and through his interest in agricultural innovation, markedly increased the stock carrying capacity of his property. He bred prize-winning sheep, was a founding member of the Northeastern Pastoral and Agricultural Society and served as councillor and later President of the Shire of Waranga in 1873. James Winter died in 1885 but Dhurringile stayed in the ownership of the Winter family until 1907. Dhurringile passed through a number of hands before being purchased in December 1925 by Vincent Vernon Hart. It appears that Dhurringile had been vacant for many years and remained unoccupied while in Hart's ownership. In 1939, the Commonwealth government negotiated with Hart to rent the property for use as an internment camp for German and Italian aliens. Internees were held at Dhurringile until transferred to other camps early in 1940 and by March 1940, the Department of the Interior had vacated the property. in 1941, Dhurringile was taken up by the army for use as a Prisoner of War Camp for Germans captured in the Middle East. The Murchison camp consisted of five compounds including the Dhurringile homestead which was intended for German officers who were to be given more favourable treatment than other ranks. In July 1945, the German prisoners were transferred to other sites and at the end of the war, the site was cleared of huts and all other military buildings. In 1947, Dhurringile was purchased by the Presbyterian Church for use as a home for migrant boys from the United Kingdom whose fathers had died during the war. The intention was to train the boys in farming methods to prepare them for employment. By this time the homestead was in a deteriorating condition and substantial repairs and alterations were needed. The Dhurringile Rural Training Farm did not open until 13 June 1951. Life in the home was spartan, difficulties were encountered in recruiting boys from Scotland and the scheme had limited success. The Commonwealth Government continued to provide increasing financial support to the home in accordance with a child migrant policy to promote British migration, but difficulties persisted and a decision was made in 1964 to close the Dhurringile Rural Training Farm. In March 1965, Dhurringile was purchased by Victorian Government Penal Department for use in the rehabilitation of alcoholic prisoners. The farm was refenced and the agricultural part of the property rehabilitated to provide a level of self-support. Prisoners provided labour for extensive repair and alteration works at the mansion. Dhurringile remains a minimum security prison, but the house itself accommodates no prisoners and has undergone some restoration and been adapted for use as a training centre.
Dhurringile is of architectural, historical and social significance to the State of Victoria.
Dhurringile is of architectural significance as one of Victoria's grandest homesteads and a fine example of the Victorian Italianate style. It is significant as a rare work of the short-lived but prominent architectural partnership of Lloyd Tayler and Wyatt. Dhurringile is significant as an early demonstration of the rise of the red face brick aesthetic which arose as a reaction to the predominant use of stucco in the previous decades.
Dhurringile and its outbuildings are of historical significance as an important example of a substantial homestead built on the proceeds of gold discoveries and subsequent pastoral wealth. It is significant for its associations with its owner John Winter and the prominent Winter and Winter-Irving families who were among the largest pastoral landholders in Victoria. Dhurringile is of historical and social significance for its use as an internment and World War Two prisoner of war camp which reflects an aspect of Australian life which is not well known. Its subsequent use by the Presbyterian Church as a rural training centre for migrant boys from the United Kingdom is a significant association with the perceived need to populate Australia with migrants of Anglo-Celtic background. It is also significant for its later use as a rehabilitation centre for prisoners with alcohol or drug dependent dependency. [Online data upgrade project 2005] .
2 Heritage Study
Year Construction Started 1877
Architect / Designer Tayler & Wyatt
Architectural Style Victorian Period (1851-1901) Italianate
Heritage Act Categories Heritage place
Municipality GREATER SHEPPARTON CITY
Other names DHURRINGILE RURAL TRAINING FARM, H.M. DHURRINGILE PRISON, H.M.REHABILITATION CENTRE DHURRINGILE, PRESBYTERIAN BOYS HOME DHURRINGILE
History
3 Victorian Heritage Database place details - 2/9/2013 NUMBER ONE INTERNMENT CAMP
Location: 1320 STEWART ROAD and 1275 CRAWFORD ROAD DHURRINGILE, GREATER SHEPPARTON CITY
Victorian Heritage Register (VHR) Number: H2048 Listing Authority: VHR Extent of Registration: 1. All of the land marked L1 on Diagram 2048 held by the Executive Director being all of the land described in Certificate of Title Volume 9528 Folio 467. 2. All of the above and below ground archaeological relics on the registered land including (but not limited to): Cafe Welblech, the skittle alley, the Cell building, the drainage channels, and the garden beds and garden path remnants.
Statement of Significance:
Number One Internment Camp is located on the eastern side of Waranga Reservoir, 20 kms south of Tatura. It was Australia's first purpose built internment camp for housing enemy aliens and/or prisoners of war. Camp 1 was established in 1940 and was closed in 1947. The camp housed male civilian internees, first of German origin and later of Italian origin who had been resident in Australia. The camp is a superb archaeological site with most of its features such as huts, ablution blocks, kitchens, tennis courts, gardens, ponds, skittle alley, café, hall, sewerage works and security fencing easily recognised.
Number One Internment Camp is of historic, cultural, social and archaeological significance to the State of Victoria.
4 Number One Internment Camp is historically significant for its association with the Australian internment policy of the first half of the twentieth century. Camp 1 was the first of eighteen purpose-built camps, a number of which were constructed in the Goulburn Valley. Crucial to the significance of the camp is its capacity to demonstrate to all visitors a direct impact of World War II on Australia. Although many of the internees were Australian residents, they were thought to be a potential security risk to the nation because of the country of their birth or their affiliations. The ruins and the landscape illustrate clearly the physical environment faced by internees and the organisational arrangements of World War II internment camp. Number One Internment Camp is historically significant due to the impact it had on persons of German origin in Victoria. Germans represented one of the major national groups in the early waves of immigration to Australia. Although numerically fewer than British or Irish settlers, they nevertheless had a substantial impact in forming the Australian society. Internment demonstrated to them that they were not considered a part of Australian society, which was at that time dominated by British values and politics. Number One Internment Camp is archaeologically significant because it contains an abundance of archaeological evidence on the layout and operation of the camp and life within the camp. Local historians have recorded the memories of former German and Italian Internees who have returned to "revisit" a period of their live which had a profound effect on them. The compactness of the camp, and the quality and depth of surviving sources of information (archaeological, historical and oral history) bestows the ruins with tremendous social significance as touchstones to the experience of wartime internment.
Heritage Study
Year Construction Started
Architect / Designer
Architectural Style
Heritage Act Categories Heritage place, Archaeological place
Municipality GREATER SHEPPARTON CITYGREATER SHEPPARTON CITY
Other names NO.1 INTERNMENT CAMP
History
5 Victorian Heritage Database place details - 2/9/2013 CALDER WOODBURN MEMORIAL AVENUE
Location: GOULBURN VALLEY HIGHWAY ARCADIA and KIALLA WEST and KIALLA and ARCADIA SOUTH, GREATER SHEPPARTON CITY, STRATHBOGIE SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register (VHR) Number: H1975 Listing Authority: VHR Extent of Registration: 1. All of the land marked L1 on Diagram Number 1975 held by the Executive Director being the Goulburn Valley Highway road reserve extending approximately 19.7km between the MurchisonûViolet Town Road and Seven Creeks but excluding the road pavement and shoulders to a width of 13.0m from the centre line of the road. 2. All of the Eucalyptus spp. trees planted in four rows along the Goulburn Valley Highway and all of the memorial name plaques associated with 110 of the trees within the land marked L1 on Diagram Number 1975 held by the Executive Director.
Statement of Significance:
The Calder Woodburn Memorial Avenue was planted between 1945 and 1949 by Mr JLF (Fen) Woodburn as a living memorial to his son Calder who lost his life while serving abroad with the Royal Australian Air Force. Calder Woodburn, a graduate of Dookie Agricultural College, enlisted 1940. He failed to return from a mine laying mission along the French coastline in April 1942. In late 1943 Fen Woodburn offered to plant two rows of trees for a distance of 9.5kms along the Goulburn Valley Highway as a memorial to his son. Starting in 1945, by August 1947 Fen Woodburn had planted all the 1406 trees to complete his original vision. In 1948 he
6 extended by a further 638 trees. In its final form the avenue was extended, in four rows, as far as the Murchison-Violet Town Road in 1949 making a total of 2,457 trees. Woodburn wanted the Avenue to be a memorial to all local servicemen who did not return from the Second World War. Memorial name plates were fixed to 110 of the trees, the trees selected being at the nearest point to the servicemen?s homes.
The Calder Woodburn Memorial Avenue is of historic, aesthetic and social significance to the State of Victoria.
The Calder Woodburn Memorial Avenue is historically significant for its commemorative association with servicemen who died during the Second World War. Planted by Fen Woodburn between 1945 and 1949 initially as a memorial to his son Calder, the Avenue is the grandest and largest of the Second World War commemorative planting in Victoria and is important for its use of only Eucalyptus species. The use of Australian native trees is particularly historically significant when contrasted to the almost universal use of exotic species for First World War memorial avenues and is consistent with a different view of Australian national consciousness which emerged after the fall of Singapore in 1942. The Calder Woodburn Memorial Avenue is aesthetically significant as a prominent landscape planting of more than 2,400 trees over a length of nearly 20 kilometres along the Goulburn Valley Highway. About one third are Eucalyptus camaldulensis, and the other two thirds consists of roughly equal numbers of Eucalyptus cladocalyx, Eucalyptus microcarpa, Eucalyptus melliodora, Eucalyptus maculata, Eucalyptus polyanthemos, and Eucalyptus sideroxylon. There are some Eucalyptus leucoxylon, Eucalyptus citriodora, and a few other unidentified Eucalyptus species. The whole forms an outstanding designed landscape and roadside planting of a scale and complexity not seen in Victoria. The uniform planting, tree form, size and maturity provides an outstanding landscape forms a dominant feature in the flat surrounding countryside, which is largely cleared for agriculture. The various bark characteristics and the alternating Ironbark and Lemon-scented Gums which provide contrasting texture and colours are also of interest. The visual impression, lineal form, planting density and landscape character of the planting are distinctive and contribute strongly to the experience of the road user. The planting is a rare example in Victoria using four rows of formally planted trees. The Calder Woodburn Memorial Avenue is socially important for its relationship with the community as a memorial to servicemen who died during the Second World War. The Avenue was conceived as a living memorial and is recognised by the Returned Services League and the community for its continuing commemorative importance.
Heritage Study
Year Construction Started
Architect / Designer
Architectural Style
Heritage Act Categories Heritage place
Municipality GREATER SHEPPARTON CITYGREATER SHEPPARTON CITYGREATER SHEPPARTON CITYSTRATHBOGIE SHIRE
Other names
History
7 Victorian Heritage Database place details - 2/9/2013 DAY'S FLOUR MILL COMPLEX
Location: 75 DAY ROAD MURCHISON, Greater Shepparton City
Victorian Heritage Register (VHR) Number: H1523 Listing Authority: VHR Extent of Registration: The whole of the buildings and land being Lot 1, PS 148686A, Part of Crown Allotment 6, Parish of Noorilim, more particularly described in Certificate of Title Vol. 9604 Folio 117 and chattels as shown in attached schedule Appendix B, held by the Director, HBC.
Statement of Significance: Day's Mill near Murchison, Victoria, is important as an example of a mid-nineteenth century steam-powered flour mill, particularly so for its physical integrity and the retention of original mill technology and artefacts. This large complex established by William Day c.1865 provides an outstanding record of an important manufacturing process at a particular stage of its regional and technological development. The development of new "roller" flour mill technology in the 1880s forever changed the nature of this industry. The growth of the metropolitan market and the railway system, and also the extension of wheat growing regions further north, provided the basis for the concentration of mills in Melbourne and other major centres. Day's Mill is, therefore, a rare and remarkable relic of an important manufacturing process in the pre-1900 period. Day's Flour Mill is still owned by the Day family. A straight tree-lined drive with gatehouse leads to the complex which comprises the three storey brick mill with ancillary boiler structure and brick chimney. There is a two storey brick manager's residence with two storey encircling verandah and several brick, timber and iron buildings. All the original mill machinery and equipment remains.
8 This is one of the finest flour mill complexes in Victoria. It has remained in the Day family since 1865 and has played an important role in the early development of this area. The large complex, complete with all its original machinery, provides an outstanding historic record of nineteenth century milling methods. The local handmade bricks, the tree-lined driveway, the gatehouse and outbuildings are distinctive features. The manager's residence with its fine cast iron decoration and unusual rendered decoration is also important. [Source: Register of the National Estate]
Heritage Study
Year Construction Started 1865
Architect / Designer
Architectural Style Victorian Period (1851-1901) Georgian
Heritage Act Categories Heritage place, Heritage object/s
Municipality GREATER SHEPPARTON CITY
Other names DAYS MILL
History
9 Victorian Heritage Database place details - 2/9/2013 GREGORYS BRIDGE HOTEL
Location: 10 HIGH ROAD MURCHISON, Greater Shepparton City
Victorian Heritage Register (VHR) Number: H0963 Listing Authority: VHR Extent of Registration: 1. All the buildings known as the former Gregory's Bridge Hotel, being the hotel building B1 and the stables B2 as shown on Diagram 963 held by the Executive Director. 2. The London Plane tree shown as T1 on Diagram 963 held by the Executive Director. 2. All the land in Crown Allotment 1 described in Certificate of Title Vol. 6442 Folio 205 and part of the Road Reserve of the Murchison - Violet Town Road and marked L1 on Diagram 963 held by the Executive Director.
Statement of Significance:
The Gregory's Bridge Hotel, situated on the banks of the Goulburn River was built between 1865 and 1868 and was known until the 1890s as Thorne's Bridge Hotel and Store. It is a substantial country hotel which also comprises a large general store and cellar as part of the building, stables at the rear and the remnants of a once magnificent garden. In front of the Hotel on the road reserve is a large and outstanding London Plane (Platanus x acerifolia) which was planted in 1916. The tree dominates the north side of the Hotel, and mostly blocks out the facade of the building. The tree has outstanding form, size and branch structure, and is one of the finest and largest London Plane trees in Victoria. The only larger trees known in Victoria occur at The Melbourne Club, Harrietville, and Kyabram. Once known as the "Mecca of the Valley" because of its four acres of magnificent gardens and riverside
10 setting, the former Gregory's Bridge Hotel was extensively patronised by tourists, commercial travellers and local inhabitants. Thorne was succeeded as licensee by Mr E. J. Gregory who added a second storey to the rear of the building in 1905 and renamed the hotel Gregory's Bridge Hotel. The hotel was said in 1909 to be 'easily the best known hotel in the Goulburn Valley' and was patronised by commercial travellers and tourists as well as locals. It is a historic symbol of the importance of hotels in a late nineteenth century community. The former Gregory's Bridge Hotel is a substantial reminder of the importance and influence of commercial travellers and the Commercial Travellers Association in Victorian society.
Gregory's Bridge Hotel Murchison is of architectural, aesthetic and historical significance to the State of Victoria.
Gregory's Bridge Hotel Murchison is of architectural significance as a representative example of a substantial two-storeyed brick country hotel with stables of the 1860s with cast iron decorative panels to the return verandah. The London Plane tree (Platanus x acerifolia), planted in 1916, is of aesthetic (landscape) significance, providing an attractive landscape setting for the historic Gregory's Bridge Hotel. The tree has outstanding form, size and branch structure, and is one of the finest and largest London Plane trees in Victoria. Gregory's Bridge Hotel Murchison is of historical significance as an example of a substantial country hotel, stables and general store built in the 1860s catering to commercial travellers and tourists.
Heritage Study
Year Construction Started 1868
Architect / Designer
Architectural Style
Heritage Act Categories Heritage place
Municipality GREATER SHEPPARTON CITY
Other names BRIDGE HOTEL, THORNES BRIDGE HOTEL
History
11 Victorian Heritage Database place details - 2/9/2013 BANGERANG CULTURAL CENTRE
Location: 45 PARKSIDE DRIVE SHEPPARTON, GREATER SHEPPARTON CITY
Victorian Heritage Register (VHR) Number: H1082 Listing Authority: VHR Extent of Registration: 1. All the building known as the Bangerang Cultural Centre marked B1 on Diagram 1082 held by the Executive Director. 2. All the following objects:four dioramas (including figures). 3. All the land marked L1 on Diagram 1082 held by the Executive Director, being part of the land described in Certificate of Title Volume 10591 Folio 689.
Statement of Significance:
The Bangerang Cultural Centre, originally known as the Aboriginal Keeping Place, was built as part of the International Village project in Shepparton. First conceived in 1974, the Keeping Place was finally opened in 1982 after many years of planning. The International Village was set up in 1974 as a tourist attraction by the Shepparton Council to celebrate the contributions of different ethnic groups. A space was allocated to the local Aboriginal community for an arts and crafts centre. The community, and in particular John (Sandy) Atkinson, OAM, a leading figure in Aboriginal organisations, had a more imaginative plan to set up their own museum or keeping place which would display artefacts and provide a resource centre for educating people about the cultural heritage of the Aboriginal people. The Aboriginal Arts Board of the Australia Council, to which Sandy Atkinson was appointed in 1976, met with the local community with the result that the Shepparton Aboriginal
12 Arts Council Co-operative was set up with funding by the Arts Board. The Co-operative, managed by Sandy Atkinson, spent many years convincing organisations and individuals to commit to their visionary plan. Shepparton Council set aside a grant of $70,000 and provided the land on the site. Subsequently in July 1978 a deputation visited the Premier of Victoria Rupert Hamer to seek a firm commitment to the project by the State Government. The deputation headed by the leader of the Country Party, Peter Ross Edwards, included the Chairman of the Australia Council, Geoffrey Blainey; Sandy Atkinson; and the Mayor of Shepparton, Murray Slee. As a result the Government allocated $170,000 towards the building. The Australia Council and the Aboriginal Arts Board provided an additional $140,000. The innovative architect Robin Boyd (1919-1971) had designed a circular interpretation centre at Tower Hill, Koroit in 1962, although it was not completed until 1970. When Sandy Atkinson visited the centre at the suggestion of Shepparton identity Mr Kilgour, he was inspired to contact Boyd's partner Frederick Romberg who agreed to design the building, with assistance from Ken Edelstein. The plans were drawn up in 1979 and the successful tenderer was KG Renwick Holdings Pty Ltd of Deniliquin. Sandy Atkinson saw the building as a circle, an important symbol in Aboriginal culture. Romberg translated this idea into a brick octagonal building originally with a wide cedar shingle roof lit by skylights and surrounded by a timber colonnade. The windows are narrow and full height. Internally the space is divided into eight bays housing the four dioramas and other display areas. There is a theatrette and a mezzanine level containing storerooms and office space. Due to failure of the shingles, the original roof was replaced by the Rotary Club with the existing metal sheet roof. The building was deliberately sited in a prominent position near the entrance to the International Village and set in landscaped undulating grounds partly encircled with water. A grassed amphitheatre was established to stage cultural events. It was originally intended that a bush garden would surround the building with edible fruits and plants. Although this did not eventuate, cumbungi reeds (Typha sp.) were planted along the waterways to provide the material for spear making and basket weaving. The Centre, housing a range of cultural items from both the local area and other parts of Australia, continues to run as a museum and cultural centre operated by the Bangerang Cultural Centre Co-operative Ltd.
Bangerang Cultural Centre is of historical, social and architectural significance to the State of Victoria.
Bangerang Cultural Centre is historically significant as an important landmark in the struggle of the Aboriginal people to maintain their own culture. As the first Aboriginal managed museum in Victoria to be planned, the Centre is a tangible symbol of the shift of attitude in society from the idea of assimilation to self-determination. The idea for a Keeping Place was conceived in the early 1970s in a climate of increasing consciousness of Aboriginal conditions and issues. In Victoria a long campaign for community control at Lake Tyers Reserve had resulted in the Aboriginal Lands Act 1971 which transferred land deeds to the Lake Tyers and Framlingham communities. The Shepparton Keeping Place was an early and innovative idea for a museum which empowered Aboriginal people to interpret their own heritage for indigenous and non-indigenous people. Bangerang Cultural Centre is historically significant for its collection of four dioramas: Bogong Moths, River Economy, Mount William Technology and Corroboree which feature life size figures engaged in traditional aspects of Aboriginal life. The figures are copies of the Museum of Victoria 19th century lifecasts made from members of the Yarra tribe of Melbourne. The dioramas were the work of Victorian artist George Browning (1918-2000), graduate of the National Gallery of Victoria School and RMIT. As an official war artist attached to the Military History Section in New Guinea and Borneo from 1943 to 1946, he not only produced a substantial collection of paintings and drawings but after the war he also worked extensively on the Australian War Memorial dioramas, as well as work for the Museum of Victoria. Bangerang Cultural Centre is of social significance for the important role it has played for many Aboriginal people in preserving their identity and raising awareness of indigenous culture. It has assisted in maintaining the cultural heritage of descendants of the Bangerang people. The Bangerang tribe of Northern Victoria consisted of ten different clan groups living in the region between the Murray and Goulburn Rivers. Bangerang Cultural Centre is architecturally significant as a work of renowned architect Frederick Romberg (1913-1992). Romberg was a partner in the innovative firm of Grounds, Romberg and Boyd from 1953 to 1962; and later with Romberg and Boyd. In 1965 Romberg was appointed Professor of Architecture at the University of Newcastle, returning to Melbourne in 1975. The modest Keeping Place is perhaps the most interesting work from the latter part of his career. Architectural historian, Harriet Edquist has suggested that the Keeping Place, designed after Boyd's death in 1971, could be Romberg's homage to his partner. That such a ground-breaking
13 architect as Romberg was chosen for the Keeping Place project adds to our appreciation of this place as an innovative project ahead of its time.
Heritage Study
Year Construction Started
Architect / Designer Romberg, Frederick
Architectural Style Late Twentieth Century (c.1960-c.2000) Structuralist
Heritage Act Categories Heritage place, Heritage object/s
Municipality GREATER SHEPPARTON CITY
Other names ABORIGINAL KEEPING PLACE, BANGERANG KEEPING PLACE
History
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